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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-02-26 00:47:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2010-02-26 00:47:05 (GMT) |
| commit | c994186dad39eee832112318d63f96189d8f2b57 (patch) | |
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| parent | 99bf01b4b4daf5c597bd1c7b58251e68adcf1301 (diff) | |
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Fixing issue5475 : urllib2.getproxies not documented
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diff --git a/Doc/library/urllib.rst b/Doc/library/urllib.rst index 2e2fa43..b48973b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/urllib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/urllib.rst @@ -265,6 +265,15 @@ Utility functions to decode *path*. +.. function:: getproxies() + + This helper function returns a dictionary of scheme to proxy server URL + mappings. It scans the environment for variables named ``<scheme>_proxy`` + for all operating systems first, and when it cannot find it, looks for proxy + information from Mac OSX System Configuration for Mac OS X and Windows + Systems Registry for Windows. + + URL Opener objects ------------------ |